PURE with Howard Thompson

“Hello/Goodbye” (broadcast 4/12/13)

Danny Gatton: Funky Mama
Cheap Trick: Hello There
Lonesome Strangers: Goodbye Lonesome, Hello Baby Doll
Todd Rundgren: Hello It's Me   
Jim Capaldi: Goodbye My Love
Ian McLagan & the Bump Band: Hello Old Friend
The Herd: Goodbye Groovy 
The Flashcubes: Hello Susie
Elmore James: Goodbye Baby
Lightnin Hopkins: Hello, Central
Barbara Lynn: Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye 
12. Long Gone Miles: Hello Josephine  
13. The Greenhornes: Saying Goodbye 
14. Ricky Nelson: Hello Mary Lou
15. Ronnie Spector & The E Street Band: Say Goodbye To Hollywood
16. Howlin' Wilf: Hello Stranger
17. Julie London: Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 
18. Sonny & Cher: Hello
19. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons: Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby, Goodbye) 
20. Doug Sahm: Goodbye SF, Hello Amsterdam
21.Roky Erickson/Okkervil River: G’bye Sweet Dreams 
22. Dennis Linde: Hello, I Am Your Heart 
23. Dixie Chicks: Goodbye Earl 
Horace Heller: Hello World
Slade: Gudbye T’Jane 
Johnny Winter: Hello My Lover 
Joe Barry: Why Did You Say Goodbye
The White Stripes: Hello Operator 
Tanya Tucker: Bidding America Goodbye 
Chuck Berry: Hello Little Girl, Goodbye 
Loudon Wainwright III: Goodbye Booze 
9. The Cure: Hello I Love You
10. The Sundays: Goodbye 
11. The Dynamites: Hello Mother
12. Van Morrison: Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) 
13. Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Hello Mabel 
14. Peter C Johnson: Goodbye Dear Friend 
15. John Prine: Hello In There 
16. Mickey Newbury: She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye 
17. Jimmy Donley: Hello Remember Me
18. Waylon Jennings: Brand New Goodbye Song 
19. Tippa Irie: Hello Darling 
21. Drugstore: Say Hello 
23. The Beatles: Hello Goodbye 


What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Apart from the occasional overnighter, fill-in or fundraiser, howard now creates shows for our Podcasts page. You’ll find over 140 archived PUREs there, and new shows will be added - check the PURE and “Strictly” pages - at least once a month.

howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present.

Disc Jockeys like Brian Matthew (BBC Light Program), Emperor Rosko (Radio Caroline), John Peel (Radio London/BBC Radio 1), Hugh Nolan (Radio Geronimo), Charlie Gillett (BBC Radio London) and Andy Dunkley (the Marquee/Lyceum) made howard’s life worth living and he now just wants to return the favor.

howard worked in the music biz so he could get free records and meet astonishing people.

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, The Star Spangles, The Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Sir Tim Smit, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe, and th’ faith healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and thanks Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work.

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President